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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (8th ISCLS) IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India 9-11 March, 2026 https://iscls.github.io/ Convenors: Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee and Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Call for papers* Dear Colleagues, FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, etc. *Important Dates:* Submission Deadline: *Jan 15th, 2026* Notification of Acceptance: *Feb 15th, 2026* Camera Ready Version Due: *March 1st, 2026* The submissions should not exceed 20 pages, and should include the title, abstract, and names and affiliations of all authors. To prepare your submission, please use the LaTeX source files listed on the website, and follow the instructions provided there. The information related to the submission portal will be updated soon on the website. The proceedings would be published as a part of ACL Anthology under https://aclanthology.org/venues/iscls/ *Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: with Extensions to Related Ancient* *Indian Languages (Vedic, Pali, Prakrit)* Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets Computational phonology and morphology Syntactic analysis Prose order normalisation Parsing Discourse analysis Structural semantics Machine translation Automatic analysis of Sanskrit corpus Processing of Sanskrit scientific, technical and philosophical texts Information extraction Named entity recognition *Shāstric Sanskrit Texts and Computation* Computer modeling and simulation of Paninian and other traditional grammars Theories of Śābdabodha and Sanskrit computational processing *Sanskrit Digital Libraries Management* Tools for acquisition and maintenance of Sanskrit digital corpus Library crawlers or search tools in Sanskrit corpus Incorporation of grammatical information in Sanskrit corpus Automated tools for evaluation of Sanskrit poetry, e.g., meter recognition/verification, alaṃkāra identification, śleṣa analysis Software tools for phylogenetic studies, intertextuality management, establishment of critical editions, and other philological applications OCR recognition of romanized Sanskrit as well as ancient Indian scripts Digital cataloguing of manuscripts Annotation and editing Alignment of text with images (including manuscripts) User interface design *Miscellaneous Computer Applications Relevant to Sanskrit* Software tools for teaching Sanskrit Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis Tools and applications for Sanskrit dissemination Creative generation (e.g., Sanskrit poetry) Program Committee (confirmed) Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad Arjuna S R, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur Hrishikesh Terdalkar, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Jivnesh Sandhan, Kyoto University Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay Oliver Hellwig, University of Zürich Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur Sebastian Nehrdich, Tohoku University Sriram K, IIIT Hyderabad Tanuja P Ajotikar, The Sanskrit Library Previous Editions: INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France (2007) Brown University, Providence, USA (2008) University of Hyderabad, India (2009) JNU, Delhi, India (2010) IIT Bombay, India (2013) IIT Kharagpur, India (2019) Auroville, Pondicherry (2024) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regards, Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur and Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee
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